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    Principle of Utility

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    the principle of utility · Bentham's criterion · greatest happiness of the greatest number · greatest happiness principle · the doctrine of utility · utility

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    Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England (English)

    The character therefore of a law may well be tested by the rough criterion embodied in the doctrine of utility.
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    Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England20th Century · English

    Bentham's doctrine that the greatest happiness of the greatest number is the sole justifiable end of government.

    The dogma is the celebrated principle of utility.
    lecture ix the debt of collectivism to benthamism
    “This principle of utility,” he said, “is a dangerous principle.
    lecture ix the debt of collectivism to benthamism
    What is there, we ask, in the greatest happiness principle—a truism now accepted by conservatives no less than by democrats—that could disturb the equanimity of a shrewd man of the world well started on the path to high office?
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